A few days missing

Well, first, I have to apologise for leaving my readers hanging for the better part of 5 days. To be completely honest, I have not been feeling up to writing.  I think you have to get pretty far up through the hierarchy of needs to get to the need for 'gratuitous self expression'. At any rate, since Saturday I've been hit pretty hard by the side effects of chemo/radiation and the transplant.  So while I have received all your emails and comments, I've just haven't had the energy to reply.

As a side note, there is a back story on the 'Mosaic of Hope'.  The Mosaic is a blackboard-like material, and was intended to be filled with white painted tiles decorated by the denizens of floor 10. When the project was put together, the nurses found that the magnets which they planned to use to hold the tiles to the wall were not strong enough, and that the tiles would drop onto the corridor floor at the slightest provocation. For safety's sake, they removed the tiles. So we are left with a Mosaic which appears to have little hope left in it. On the bright side, the nurses and staff are all very friendly and have been making my stay here as bearable as possible. 

Also, in breaking news, I'm clean shaven again. The hair started falling out Tues, and I wasn't willing to let nature take its course on that. 

Well, I guess that's all the news that's fit to print. Thanks all for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers - I look forward to posting more over the next few days.